barbershop progress bar?

[balkandvb]

I am using the latest version of ffmpegx to convert a 3ivx .avi file (abou 1.5 gig) to a dvd and so far it's been showing me a barbershop progress bar for an hour now and the cpu monitor is running at full speed. here is the progress:

Encoding started on Thu Apr 7 21:36:37 EDT 2005
Input #0, yuv4mpegpipe, from 'pipe:':
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 720x480, 23.98 fps
Output #0, rawvideo, to '/Users/druzetito/Desktop/DVD Media/Motion Pictures/Dust/dust.avi.ff.mpv':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video (hq), 720x480, 23.98 fps, q=2-20, 2994 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0

do you think i should stop this or not? I just want to know if its doing what its supposed to. Thanks.

[devo]

let it go! it's encoding right now...

[dylanpank@msn.com]

You can always go to the output file (~/Desktop/DVD Media/Motion Pictures/Dust/dust.avi.ff.mpv) and open it with VLC player to check it's encoding. VLC will play the file for as far as it's got (albeit not very smoothly) or just keep checking on the mpv file's size in the Finder or under Get Info to see if it's always getting bigger.

The "barbershop" bar is there because it takes a long time for FFmpegx Progress to work out how long the entire file is going to take. After a while it will show a proper progress bar.

Depending in your computer, the file you're encoding will take several hours (possibly more than a day on a slower machine) to finish.